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Crisis of Confidence in the Alpine National Team

Economic misprioritizations, dominance techniques, and a culture of silence. This is testified by skiers in the alpine national team. Almost half of the skiers lack confidence in the national team management, according to an anonymous survey from SVT Sport.

» Published: October 27 2024

Crisis of Confidence in the Alpine National Team
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The survey, which was sent out to all 19 skiers and answered by 16, shows that half of them do not have confidence in anyone in the alpine national team management. The others state that they have confidence in some, but no one answers that they have confidence in everyone.

Six of the 16 respondents state that they have considered quitting, according to the survey.

"It's clear that you wonder about the future within this when you're treated poorly and when resources within the sport disappear", writes one of the skiers.

"I experience that one person in the national team management has great difficulty in taking criticism and I also experience that the person sometimes uses authoritarian techniques when you want to express criticism", writes another skier.

The Swedish Ski Association writes in a press release that they do not want to comment on SVT's information.

"We are fully aware that we have challenges within the alpine discipline. Therefore, the board decided in December to conduct an alpine mapping. Everything based on scientific grounds that identifies the challenges or problems we have, so that we can work out the right measures for these problems. Not guessing our way to solutions", writes the Ski Association.

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